Master Song
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Intro: Gm/D Gm/Bb Gm Gm/Bb
Ab Gm
I believe that you heard your master sing
Ab Gm
When I was sick in bed
Ab Gm
I suppose that he told you everything
Ab Gm
That I keep locked away in my head
Ab Cm
Your master took you travelling
Eb F
Well at least that's what you said
Bb Dm/A Bb Dm/A
And now do you come back to bring
Eb D Gm Gm/Bb
Your prisoner wine and bread?
Ab Gm
You met him at some temple
Ab Gm
Where they take your clothes at the door
Ab Gm
He was just a numberless man in a chair
Ab Gm
Who'd just come back from the war
Ab Cm
And you wrap up his tired face in your hair
Eb F
And he hands you the apple core
Bb Dm/A Bb Dm/A
Then he touches your lips now so suddenly bare
Eb D Gm Gm/Bb
Of all the kisses we put on some time before
Ab Gm
And he gave you a German Shepherd to walk
Ab Gm
With a collar of leather and nails
Ab Gm
And he never once made you explain or talk
Ab Gm
About all of the little details
Ab Cm
Such as who had a word and who had a rock
Eb F
And who had you through the mails
Bb Dm/A Bb Dm/A
Now your love is a secret all over the block
Eb D Gm Gm/Bb
And it never stops not even when your master fails
Ab Gm
And he took you up in his aeroplane
Ab Gm
Which he flew without any hands
Ab Gm
And you cruised above the ribbons of rain
Ab Gm
That drove the crowd from the stands
Ab Cm
Then he killed the lights in a lonely lane
Eb F
And an ape with angel glands
Bb Dm/A Bb Dm/A
Erased the final wisps of pain
Eb D Gm Gm/Bb
With the music of rubber bands
Ab Gm
And now I hear your master sing
Ab Gm
You kneel for him to come
Ab Gm
His body is a golden string
Ab Gm
That your body is hanging from
Ab Cm
His body is a golden string
Eb F
My body has grown numb
Bb Dm/A Bb Dm/A
Oh now you hear your master sing
Eb D Gm Gm/Bb
Your shirt is all undone
Ab Gm
And will you kneel beside this bed
Ab Gm
That we polished so long ago
Ab Gm
Before your master chose instead
Ab Gm
To make my bed of snow?
Ab Cm
Your eyes are wild and your knuckles are red
Eb F
And you're speaking far too low
Bb Dm/A Bb Dm/A
No I can't make out what your master said
Eb D Gm Gm/Bb
Before he made you go
Ab Gm
Then I think you're playing far too rough
Ab Gm
For a lady who's been to the moon
Ab Gm
I've lain by this window long enough
Ab Gm
To get used to an empty room
Ab Cm
And your love is some dust in an old man's cough
Eb F
Who is tapping his foot to a tune
Bb Dm/A Bb Dm/A
And your thighs are a ruin, you want too much
Eb D Gm Gm/Bb
Let's say you came back some time too soon
Ab Gm
I loved your master perfectly
Ab Gm
I taught him all that he knew
Ab Gm
He was starving in some deep mystery
Ab Gm
Like a man who is sure what is true
Ab Cm
And I sent you to him with my guarantee
Eb F
I could teach him something new
Bb Dm/A Bb Dm/A
And I taught him how you would long for me
Eb D Gm Gm/Bb
No matter what he said, no matter what you'd do
Ab Gm
I believe that you heard your master sing
Ab Gm
While I was sick in bed
Ab Gm
I'm sure that he told you everything
Ab Gm
I must keep locked away in my head
Ab Cm
Your master took you travelling
Eb F
Well at least that's what you said
Bb Dm/A Bb Dm/A
And now do you come back to bring
Eb D
Your prisoner wine and bread?
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Tune the guitar down one whole tone and play like this:
Intro:
Am
D:------0---0-------0---0-------0---0-------0---0----:
A:------0---1-------0---1-------0---1-------0---1----:
F:----2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2--:
C:--2-----------2-----------------------2------------:
G:--------------------------3------------------------:
D:---------------------------------------------------:
Am
D:------0---0-------0---0-------0---0-------0---0----:
A:------0---1-------0---1-------0---1-------0---1----:
F:----2---2-------2---2-------2---2-------2---2---2--:
C:--------------------------------------2------------:
G:--0---------0-0---------0-3---------3--------------:
D:---------------------------------------------------:
Verse:
Bb Am
D:------1---1-------1---1-------0---0-------0---0----:
A:------3---3-------3---3-------0---1-------1---0----:
F:----3---3---3---3---3---3---2---2---2---2---2---2--:
C:--------------3-----------------------2------------:
G:--1-----------------------0------------------------:
D:---------------------------------------------------:
Bb Am
D:------1---1-------1---1-------0---0-------0---0----:
A:------3---3-------3---3-------0---1-------1---0----:
F:----3---3---3---3---3---3---2---2---2---2---2---2--:
C:--------------3-----------------------2------------:
G:--1-----------------------0------------------------:
D:---------------------------------------------------:
Bb Am
D:------1---1-------1---1-------0---0-------0---0----:
A:------3---3-------3---3-------0---1-------1---0----:
F:----3---3---3---3---3---3---2---2---2---2---2---2--:
C:--------------3-----------------------2------------:
G:--1-----------------------0------------------------:
D:---------------------------------------------------:
Bb Am
D:------1---1-------1---1-------0---0-------0---0----:
A:------3---3-------3---3-------0---1-------1---0----:
F:----3---3---3---3---3---3---2---2---2---2---2---2--:
C:--------------3-----------------------2------------:
G:--1-----------------------0------------------------:
D:---------------------------------------------------:
Bb Dm
D:------1---1-------1---1-------1---1-------1---1----:
A:------3---3-------3---3-------3---3-------3---3----:
F:----3---3---3---3---3---3---2---2---2---2---2---2--:
C:--------------3-----------0-----------0------------:
G:--1------------------------------------------------:
D:---------------------------------------------------:
FG
D:------1---1-------1---1-------3---3-------3---3----:
A:------1---1-------1---1-------3---3-------3---3----:
F:----2---2---2---2---2---2---4---4---4---4---4---4--:
C:--------------3-----------------------5------------:
G:--3-----------------------5------------------------:
D:---------------------------------------------------:
C Em C Em
D:------0---0-------0---0-------0---0-------0---0----:
A:------1---1-------0---0-------1---1-------0---0----:
F:----0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0--:
C:---------------------------------------------------:
G:--3-----------2-----------3-----------2------------:
D:---------------------------------------------------:
F
D:------1---1-------1---1-------1---1-------1---1----:
A:------1---1-------1---1-------1---1-------1---1----:
F:----2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2--:
C:--------------3-----------------------3------------:
G:---------------------------------------------------:
D:--1-----------------------1------------------------:
Play this for verses 1 to 8:
E Am
D:------0---0-------0---0-------0---0-------0---0-------0---0-------0---0----:
A:------0---0-------0---0-------0---1-------0---1-------0---1-------0---1----:
F:----1---1---1---1---1---1---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2--:
C:--------------2-----------------------2-----------------------2------------:
G:--------------------------0-----------------------3------------------------:
D:--0------------------------------------------------------------------------:
And this for the last, 9th verse:
E
D:------0---0-------0---0-------0---0-------0---0----:
A:------0---0-------0---0-------0---0-------0---0----:
F:----1---1---1---1---1---1---1---1---1---1---1---1--:
C:--------------2-----------------------2------------:
G:---------------------------------------------------:
D:--0-----------------------0------------------------:
